Sentence examples for empire fail from inspiring English sources

In its ways, the empire was as varied as the EU, where fun ranges from bull fighting at one end to naked saunas at the other.Feeling the PrussiaWhy, then, did the empire fail?

In business, he is unlikely to rest as long as the jigsaw puzzle of his satellite empire fails to embrace its two huge missing pieces: the United States and China.

But if the Empire failed as a roller rink and was turned into a car wash, why not let the city strike it from the rolls of the protected?

In 1535, peaceful attempts by the Franciscan Order to incorporate Yucatán into the Spanish Empire failed after a renewed Spanish military presence at Champotón forced the friars out.

The overall effort by Somesvara IV to rebuild the Chalukya empire failed and the dynasty was ended by the Seuna rulers who drove Somesvara IV into exile in Banavasi 1189.

How did this happen, and why did the Soviet Union's attempt to impose totalitarianism on its new empire ultimately fail?

The Maratha Empire had failed to upgrade its guerrilla warfare tactics as their Empire grew.

The flamboyant Second Empire style failed so wretchedly after the Civil War that it still looks ridiculous a century and a half later.

Franceschini was speaking following the partial destruction of Iraq's Hatra, an ancient fortress city that the Roman empire repeatedly failed to conquer.

If the Byzantine Empire avoided the fate of West Rome, it did so only because it was to combine valour and good luck with certain advantages of institutions, emotions, and attitudes that the older empire had failed to enjoy.

"Sporting failure has fitted comfortably into the story of a nation in decline, a country that has lost an empire and failed to find the goal net," the often dystopian broadcaster Jeremy Paxman wrote in The Sunday Telegraph.